July 2004

I've been on the road for the past three weeks, wrapping up our final site visits and interviews for Venue across the northern Plains, eastern Oregon, the Great Basin, and, now, northern California. It's been hard to find time to post during all this, sadly, but I thought I'd just put up a few quick Instagrams of our travels—you can always see more, and follow along, at my Instagram feed, if you're interested.

A lot of this will also be documented in a forthcoming feature in the July/August issue of Popular Science, including a small map for anyone who might want to do some of these travels themselves.

In the past few weeks alone, we've been 2,341 feet below the earth's surface visiting the vast, 5,000-ton underground neutrino detector in the old Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota, the headwaters of the Mississippi river in the nearby Itasca State Park—

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